Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In this text I briefly analyze AI from the perspective of the social classes, groups, and regions that have suffered most from the multifaceted injustice, social exclusion, and discrimination caused by the three main motors of modern domination: capitalism (exploitation of labor, infinite growth, privatization of gains, and socialization of losses), colonialism (racism, unequal trade, plunder of natural resources) and patriarchy (sexism, femicide, heteronormativity).I start from the assumption that such an analysis must be based on an epistemic perspective that does justice to the aspirations of justice and liberation by oppressed classes and populations.This is not the case of the dominant Western centric epistemologies centered on monolithic and monocultural technoscientific understanding of social reality.Such epistemologies tend to lead to conclusions and propose solutions that systematically reproduce social inequality and injustice while claiming to do the opposite.I propose, as an alternative, the "epistemologies of the South" (Santos 2014(Santos , 2018)).The epistemologies of the South consist in the identification and validation of knowledges born in struggle against the main modes of modern domination, that is, capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy.The world is epistemically diverse, which, rather than a burden, is a precious asset of
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Institution: University of Coimbra
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402054818